Insecticides sticker mixture



Patented Mar. 23, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,577,916 PATENT OFFICE.

SEBASTIAN LOMANITZ, 0F HOUSTON, TEXAS. V

INSECTICIDES STICKER MIXTURE.

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, Texas (whose post-oflice address is 1302 Congress Avenue, Houston, Texas), have in 'vented a new and Improved Insecticides Sticker .Mixture, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to insecticides sticker mixtures in dry or powder form, and it has reference more particularly to a sticker mixture which can be addedto a germicide or' insecticide or both subsequently in proportions desired before applymg it to plants.

The object of the invention is to provide a sticker mixture which contains a mater al of hygroscopic, sticky or .pasty qualitles that can be handled'conveniently in powder form.

-Another object of the invention is to proyide a-sticker mixture in dry form, which when added to a germicide or insecticide, or both, will obviate the. necessity of using inert material as a vehicle for the sticker material. V

In the manufacture of insecticides in powderform, it is desirable to incorporate an ingredient called a sticker which helps spreading out and the adhering of the mass which is the mixture of the different ingredients forming the insecticide when the same is applied to plants.

It is often necessary to provide a vehicle for the sticker before the same can beincorporated into the insecticide or fungicide.-

This vehicle i s nerally an inert substance, such as kieselgu li r, the purpose of which is to enable to incorporate the sticker material uniformly into the insecticide mixture and thereby increases the s reading qualities of the sticker used. T e introduction of the inert vehicle necessarily decreases the eflicienc of the insecticide or fungicide mixed t erewith, for it decreases the concentration of the active ingredients used in the mixture.

In my sticker mixture, the vehicle, if it may be so called, is sulphur which .is a fungicide and used extensively in insecticides mixtures.

I have discovered that if a sticker material commonly used in insecticides mixtures is thoroughly mixed with sulphur to produce a homogeneous-mass, the said mass can be used as a sticker material mixture the insecticide or fun of the mixture of su reduced. Therefore,

Application flied December 27, 1924. Serial No. 758,396.

The mixture of the sticker material which is asoap-and sulphur is preferably made by mixing the two at the lowest temperature at which sulphur would fuse,

and the soa is preferably still liquid. The amount 0 sulphur used should be enough to render the fused mass hard and.

brittle at normal temperature and pressure. The experiments have shown that one part of sticker material requires about 1 /2 parts of sulphur.

At the fusion temperature of sul hur, the sticker soap and the sulphur can e easily mixed thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass before the same hardens and subsequently could be easily ground to a powder of any desired mesh. The resulting Owder which is about retains all the hydroscopic, sticky an pasty qualities of the original sticky material used, but the sticky soap'mixed with sulphur can be handled better and incorporated con-,

veniently with a fungicide or insecticide. When it is brought into contact with the moisture of the plant or in the spraying tank, it acts as if the sticky material incorporated is free. v

As a matter of fact, the sticky mixture seems to have additional qualities in helping of wetting the sulphur forming part of wide. The advantage phur and sticker soa to produce the sticker mixture is self-evident, for sometimes sulphur is the main ingradient in such insecticides and fun icides products. As an example, the fol owing insecticide is given:

Sulphur, 65 to 70%; lead arsenate, 15 to 10%; sticker mixture, 10 to 5%; lime, 15%.

Of course, the-sticker mixture referred to is the one intimately mixed with sulphur.

The use of sulphur as a vehicle for the introduction of the sticky material for causing, spreading and adhesion does away with t e use of an inert, extraneous substance utilized for similar purposes. As a consequence of this, the cost of production and handling of the insecticide or fungicide is fungicides and insecticides mixed with my sticker mixture are more economical, more concentrated and permit the use of a cheaper grade of sticker soaps due to the fact that the same is fused wit sulphur before it is added to and used with insecticides and fungicides.

I claim:

1. A sticker mixture for insecticides and fungicides formed b a homogeneous fused mass of soap and su phur.

2 A sticker mixture for insecticides and fungicides comprising an intimate fused mixture'of sticker soap and sulphur which is brittle at ordinary temperature and pressure. e

3; A sticker mixture for insecticides and fungicides, comprising a fused mass of sulphur and sticker soap in proportion of one and one-half to one respectively and which fused mass is brittle atatmospherlc conditions.

4. A sticker mixture for insecticides and fungicides, comprising an intimate mixture of sulphur and sticker soap fused at a temperature not exceeding 115 C. and containing one and one-half to one of sulphur to sticker soap respectively, the fused mass being brittle at atmospheric conditions i f-SEBASTIAN 

